Both the reading and the lecture are about ethanol fuel and its probable use as an alternative fuel to gasoline in the future. While the author of the reading argues that ethanol is not a decent substitute for gasoline, the professor disputes this claim. He states that actually, ethanol is a proper replacement for gasoline and non of the reasons mentioned in the reading are not convincing. The lecturer casts doubts on the main points made in the passage by providing three controversial reasons.
In the reading, the author begins by saying that ethanol does not solve the global warming problem as it produces carbon dioxide when it is burned. However, the professor disagrees with this idea. He asserts that ethanol is made from plants such as corn, and these plants absorb carbon dioxide during the growth process since carbon dioxide is one of the main vital nutrients for this process. Therefore, despite the fact that ethanol produces carbon dioxide after burning, by and large, using ethanol removes carbon dioxide from the atmpsphere.
Furthermore, according to the reading, the increasing use of ethanol would significantly reduce the number of plants available for other uses such as animals' food since ethanol is mostly made from plants. On the other hand, the professor points out that ethanol is produced from some parts of plants which are not eaten by animals. So, the use of ethanol as a fuel has nothing to do with the reduction in the source of foods for animals.
Finally, the author believes that ethanol is a very prohibitive fuel and is not able to compete with gasoline in price. Not surprisingly, the lecturer takes issue with this assertion by contending that if ethanol become a widespread fuel and people start buying it, its cost will drop up to 40%. Even without the support of the government, its price would be affordable for most of people.
To sum up, both the author and the lecturer hold conflicting views on the use of ethanol as an alternative fuel to gasoline.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 375, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the people') or simply say ''most people''.
Suggestion: most of the people; most people
...ment, its price would be affordable for most of people. To sum up, both the author and the...
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Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ould be affordable for most of people. To sum up, both the author and the lectu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, finally, furthermore, however, if, so, therefore, while, such as, by and large, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 30.3222958057 165% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1675.0 1373.03311258 122% => OK
No of words: 340.0 270.72406181 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92647058824 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29407602571 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55184816667 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 145.348785872 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491176470588 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 525.6 419.366225166 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.3413904576 49.2860985944 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.666666667 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6666666667 21.698381199 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.86666666667 7.06452816374 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.335514627802 0.272083759551 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.116509181877 0.0996497079465 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0685150495741 0.0662205650399 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18419807274 0.162205337803 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0642514972567 0.0443174109184 145% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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